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Put a part of a POST request in variable

I did a POST request code pointing to an API to do an automatic exchange program.
Here is the code:
string webAddr = "https://shapeshift.io/shift";
var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(webAddr);
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/json; charset=utf-8";
httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()))
{
string json = "{ \"withdrawal\" : \"***ADDRESS WITH LETTER AND NUMBER***\", \"pair\" : \"eth_xmr\" }";
streamWriter.Write(json);
streamWriter.Flush();
}
var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
var responseText = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine(responseText);
}
And after executing the code, I'm getting this in the console
{"orderId":"1f90346c-c6d4-4d89-a24c-78b2bbdb6292","deposit":"0x534aa684274b4711f65b2d0e2e403cb169201255","depositType":"ETH","withdrawal":"***ADDRESS WITH LETTER AND NUMBER***","withdrawalType":"XMR"
Now, I want to put the address from deposit that I'm getting from the API into a string variable. I tried some code but I can't make it working. So how can I put this address in a string variable ?

You could deserialize the response and get from there that you want. In order to do so you could define a class, let's name it ApiResponse:
public class ApiResponse
{
[JsonProperty("orderId")]
public string orderId { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("deposit")]
public string deposit { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("depositType")]
public string depositType { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("withdrawal")]
public string withdrawal { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("withdrawalType")]
public string withdrawalType { get; set; }
}
and then after
var responseText = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
make the deserialization:
var apiResponse = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ApiResponse>(responseText);
I have used the Json.NET library. So if you haven't isntall it, you should do so or you could make use of another library and change correspondingly the above code.

Webrequest c# API null once reached the API

I am trying to send a request from server side to my API, here is my code from Server
var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("http://localhost:59606/api/values/UserCheck");
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/json; charset=utf-8";
httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()))
{
string json = "{\"username\":\"User\"," +
"\"password\":\"Mypassword\"," +
"\"logonfrom\":\"DOMAIN\\DomainName\"}";
streamWriter.Write(json);
streamWriter.Flush();
streamWriter.Close();
}
var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
var result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
Console.WriteLine(result);
Console.ReadLine();
}
May API code are below:
[HttpPost]
[ActionName("UserCheck")]
public bool UserCheck([FromBody]User value)
{
ContextType CT = ContextType.Domain;
if (value.logonfrom.Split('\\')[0] == "DOMAIN")
{
CT = ContextType.Domain;
}else if(value.logonfrom.Split('\\')[0] == "MACHINE")
{
CT = ContextType.Machine;
}else
{
return false;
}
return CheckCredentials(value.username, value.password, CT,value.logonfrom.Split('\\')[1]);
}
when my request reach the Action of UserCheck, the value of
([FromBody]User value)
is null
my Class for the User is below
public class User
{
public string username { get; set; }
public string password { get; set; }
public string system { get; set; }
public string IP { get; set; }
public string logonfrom { get; set; }
}
BUT once i remove the logonfrom variable from json there is no error, i mean the parameter (value) successfully captures the content i sent.
Thanks

use the following peace of code.
string json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new { username = "afsa", password = "fsaf", system = "fsaf", ip = "fsf", logonfrom ="fsfsd"});

sending push notification using FCM on android device

I can able to send the push notification on my android application using the console. but using server side code, I get the successfully message send notification but actually notification does not able to receive at device end. Please, tell me what is wrong with my code:
public static string SendPushNotification() {
try {
string applicationID = "AAAA4GkXVHA:....-qRw";
string senderId = "963..28";
string deviceId = "APA91bHLV...IC4s";
WebRequest tRequest = WebRequest.Create("https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send");
tRequest.Method = "post";
tRequest.ContentType = "application/json";
var data = new {
to = deviceId,
notification = new {
body = "hema",
title = "hem",
//priority = "normal",
//sound = "Enabled"
},
};
var serializer = new JavaScriptSerializer();
var json = serializer.Serialize(data);
Byte[] byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(json);
tRequest.Headers.Add(string.Format("Authorization: key={0}", applicationID));
tRequest.Headers.Add(string.Format("Sender: id={0}", senderId));
tRequest.ContentLength = byteArray.Length;
using (Stream dataStream = tRequest.GetRequestStream()) {
dataStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
using (WebResponse tResponse = tRequest.GetResponse()) {
using (Stream dataStreamResponse = tResponse.GetResponseStream()) {
using (StreamReader tReader = new StreamReader(dataStreamResponse)) {
String sResponseFromServer = tReader.ReadToEnd();
string str = sResponseFromServer;
return str;
}
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex) {
string str = ex.Message;
return str;
}
}
where I got the response in return is as follows :
{"multicast_id":8288766196764532656,"success":1,"failure":0,"canonical_ids":0,"results":[{"message_id":"0:1481612825945796%6ad79a87f9fd7ecd"}]}

Sending the json in right format:
{
"to" : "APA91bHLV__P6Qer8U70j82blZt0VdDgc2zo_4DtAD4_MtE-......",
"notification" : {
"body" : "Success!",
"title" : "Hema",
"icon" : "myicon"
}
}
To check it properly, you can also use the postman:

Even I experienced the same problem. Finish all the steps in connecting the FCM from Client side. If you implement GetMessage() method from client side, only then your device is able to get the Notification from Server side

I wrote a small tutorial for this: https://www.kendar.org/?p=/tutorials/notifications with an Android app and a .Net core Server. To summarize here is the "main" server code
public NotificationResult Send(NotificationModel messageData)
{
var result = "-1";
var webAddr = "https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send";
var httpWebRequest = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(webAddr);
httpWebRequest.ContentType = "application/json";
httpWebRequest.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.Authorization, "key=PROJECTSETTINGS->Cloud Messagings->Server Key");
httpWebRequest.Method = "POST";
using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(httpWebRequest.GetRequestStream()))
{
string strNJson = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(new NotificationMessage
{
To = "/topics/ServiceNow",
Data = new NotificationData
{
Description = messageData.Description,
IncidentNo = messageData.IncidentNo,
ShortDesc = messageData.ShortDesc
},
Notification = new Notification
{
Title = "ServiceNow: Incident No." + messageData.IncidentNo,
Text = "Notification"
}
});
streamWriter.Write(strNJson);
streamWriter.Flush();
}
var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
{
result = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
}
return new NotificationResult
{
Result = result
};
}
And the classes that wrap the message to FCM (with the Json annotations to correct the mismatch between .Net and Json naming standards)
public class NotificationData
{
public string ShortDesc { get; set; }
public long IncidentNo { get; set; }
public string Description { get; set; }
}
public class Notification
{
public Notification()
{
Sound = "default";
}
[JsonProperty("title")]
public string Title { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("text")]
public string Text { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("sound")]
public string Sound { get; set; }
}
public class NotificationMessage
{
[JsonProperty("to")]
public string To { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("data")]
public NotificationData Data { get; set; }
[JsonProperty("notification")]
public Notification Notification { get; set; }
}

Test secured WebAPI with HttpRequestMessage

I am trying to test my Web API
[Test]
public void PolicyController_GetFirstPage_Successful()
{
using (var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Get, "http://localhost/api/policies/~/~/0"))
{
using (var response = Client.SendAsync(request, CancellationToken.None).Result)
{
//blah blah
}
}
}
But my controller's action has [Authorize] attribute, so I am getting unauthorized error.
How can I handle this case?

First you need to get access token. And then you can send GET request with access token inside headers. You can read more about this here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh454950.aspx
Here is working console app example. It's quite hardcoded but works fine with my test app, so I hope it will be useful for you.
namespace ConsoleApplication
{
class Program
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Console.WriteLine("App started");
var tokenUrl = "http://localhost:29825/token";
var userName = "stack";
var userPassword = "password";
var request = string.Format("grant_type=password&username={0}&password={1}", HttpUtility.UrlEncode(userName), HttpUtility.UrlEncode(userPassword));
var token = HttpPost(tokenUrl, request);
var url = "http://localhost:29825/api/clients";
var clients = HttpGet(url, token.access_token);
foreach (var client in clients)
{
Console.WriteLine(client.Name);
}
Console.WriteLine("Press Enter to quit");
Console.ReadLine();
}
private static AccessToken HttpPost(string tokenUrl, string requestDetails)
{
WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(tokenUrl);
webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
webRequest.Method = "POST";
byte[] bytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(requestDetails);
webRequest.ContentLength = bytes.Length;
using (Stream outputStream = webRequest.GetRequestStream())
{
outputStream.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length);
}
using (WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse())
{
DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(AccessToken));
AccessToken token = (AccessToken)serializer.ReadObject(webResponse.GetResponseStream());
return token;
}
}
private static List<Client> HttpGet(string url, string token)
{
WebRequest webRequest = WebRequest.Create(url);
webRequest.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
webRequest.Method = "GET";
webRequest.Headers.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + token);
using (WebResponse webResponse = webRequest.GetResponse())
{
DataContractJsonSerializer serializer = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(List<Client>));
List<Client> clients = (List<Client>)serializer.ReadObject(webResponse.GetResponseStream());
return clients;
}
}
[DataContract]
public class AccessToken
{
[DataMember]
public string access_token { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string token_type { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string expires_in { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string userName { get; set; }
}
[DataContract]
public class Client
{
[DataMember]
public string Id { get; set; }
[DataMember]
public string Name { get; set; }
}
}
}

I've just set Thread.CurrentPrincipal and it now works fine.

Sending list of objects to Web API

I am having trouble sending a list of objects to a webapi controller.
This is the controler:
[AcceptVerbs("POST")]
public string syncFoodData(List<intakeSync> str)
{
string apikey = Request.Headers.GetValues("api_key").ToArray()[0];
return "data syncronised";
}
This is the class:
public class intakeSync
{
public int memberID { get; set; }
public Double size { get; set; }
public string food { get; set; }
public string token { get; set; }
public string time { get; set; }
public string date { get; set; }
public string nocatch { get; set; }
public string calories { get; set; }
}
The value of str is always null.
this is the webmethod that sends the httprequest to the webapi
public static string syncIntakeData(string token, string[] syncString)
{
JavaScriptSerializer js = new JavaScriptSerializer();
List<intakeSync> str = new List<intakeSync>();
for (int i = 0; i <= syncString.Length - 1; i++)
{
str.Add(js.Deserialize<intakeSync>(syncString[i]));
}
string url = URI + "/api/Food/?str=" +js.Serialize(str);
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Method = "POST";
request.ContentType = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded";
request.Headers.Add("api_key", token);
Stream requestStream = request.GetRequestStream();
StreamReader read = new StreamReader(request.GetResponse().GetResponseStream());
string dat = read.ReadToEnd();
read.Close();
request.GetResponse().Close();
return dat;
}

You can use this :
Request body in Json
[{id:1, nombre:"kres"},
{id:2, nombre:"cruz"}]
Api Rest .net C#
public string myFunction(IEnumerable<EntitySomething> myObj)
{
//...
return "response";
}

I don't know really how your JSON is serialized in the line js.Serialize(str); I suspect that this line is the core problem. Sending JSON is better suited in the POST Request body than in the query string. Anyways, I think that HttpClient is better suited for working with WebApi because it offers symmetric programming experience. You could try something like that with HttpClient :
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
client.BaseAddress = new Uri(URI);
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/json"));
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("api_key", token);
var content = new ObjectContent(syncString, new JsonMediaTypeFormatter());
var result = client.PostAsync("/api/Food/", content).Result;
}